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Newsletter, Volume 23, Number 02, March - April 1978
No full textNIH Chimpanzee Grant National Large bowel cancer Project Renewed Manual for Staging of Cancer Published Reproductive Considerations for Young Cancer Patients, Louise C. Strong, MD Genetic Marker for Breast Cancer Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award Cytogenetic Toxicity of Gentian Violet and Crystal Violet, William Au, PhD, Sen Pathak, PhD, Cheryl Collie, BS, T.C. Hus, PhD AHH Enzyme Activity Related to Lung Cancer MDAH Establishes Nutrition Classeshttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/newsletter/1088/thumbnail.jp
The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
No full textThis paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen's research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen's contributions in the field of human rights forward.Amartya Sen, human rights, poverty, freedom, obligation, capability approach, meta-rights, entitlements, opportunity freedom, liberty-rights
Analysis of information use in agricultural science PhD theses at Central University of Venezuela
No full textPurpose – To analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
Design/methodology/approach – The source of information was the UCV Faculty of Agronomy, Library's database, “Tesis”. The unidimensional production and use indicators analyzed included: scientific production, reference density, self-citations, document contemporaneousness and type of documents cited, reference scattering and accessibility of the journals cited.
Findings – The analysis of the data obtained from 4,646 bibliographic references in 42 agricultural science PhD theses provides insight into information use in a Venezuelan agricultural science community. The mean number of references per thesis found was 113?±?21. The number of women earning a PhD in agriculture was observed to grow. The percentage of self-citations varied widely. The half-life was 11 years and the Price's Index 22 per cent. According to the distribution by document type, most of the publications cited were articles in journals, while references to technical standards and internet publications were rare. UCV Faculty of Agronomy PhD students tended to seek information primarily in the Anglo Saxon literature. The Celestino Bonfanti Library periodicals section met a high proportion (92 per cent) of the demand for journals located in the first and second concentration-scattering zones.
Originality/value – This is the only paper on the evaluation of PhD theses in Venezuela. The findings will be useful for education planners in Venezuela and other developing countries.Publicad
Teachers' attitudes to inclusion in Ghana
No full textThe purpose of this study was to survey the attitudes of teachers in Ghana towards children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities in relation to the UNESCO (1994) Salamanca Statement on inclusion. Using random sampling techniques, five. hundred and forty trained and un~rained mainstream Primary School teachers were selected from three of the ten regions of Ghana to respond to questionnaire items composed of educational placement options and bi-polar emotional reactions. Sixteen. of the participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide consisfing of scenarios on the assessment results ofchildren with SEN and disabilities. The results, including chi-square analysis, showed that teachers in Ghana were generally positive towards the inclusion of children with SEN and disabilities. Their greatest 'concern, however, was with children with sensory disabilities (that is the deaf and blind) and severe to profound intellectual difficulties. In some of the SEN categories, statistically significant diffe~ences were found between teachers in terms of gender, level of teaching experience, knowledge ofhow to teach children with SEN and disabilities and the location of school in terms region or level of urbanisation. However, no differences were found between teachers in attitudes to inclusion in terms of age, qualification or length of teaching experience. Further, the results showed that irrespective of a teacher's gender, level of experience and/or knowleage of SEN and disabilities, teachers generally experienced anxiety, dissatisfaction and worry in teaching children with SEN and disabilities. On the basis of the fmdings, conclusions were drawn that global agendas are subject to national and local interpretation. It therefore sounds logical' for research and . policies to be context specific. This way, attitudes could be better understood and policies and regulations on SEN fashioned to meet local situations and standards
Journal of Biosciences : an analysis of citation pattern
No full textThe study is based on 1049 citations appended to 34 research articles pertaining to issue nos. 2 to 4 of volume 20 of Journal of Biosciences of the year 2000. The authorship pattern of the citations shows that 18.68% per cent papers are single-authored, 52.71 per cent are double- and triple-authored, and the remaining 28.61 per cent are joint contributions of four or more authors. As in the case of medicine, the team size of this field is also bigger than those in the fields of chemistry and physics. As many as 25 articles of mega-authorship (i.e. contributions by ten or more authors) have been encountered in this study, and one of them was by22 authors . Of the citations .journal articles comprised 85.89 per cent, and monographs 10.1 per cent. Indian contributions comprised 5.53 per cent of the citations. Of the citing articles 30 are by Indian authors, 3 by foreign authors, and 1 (2.94%) jointly by Indian and foreign authors. Of the total citations 10.87 per cent are author self citations and 0.57 per cent are journal self citations
Indian Journal of Medical Research : an analysis of citation pattern
No full textThe study is based on 781 citations appended to 43 research articles pertaining to January to June 2000 issues of volume 109 of Indian Journal of Medical Research. The authorship pattern of the citations shows that more than 15 per cent contributions are single-authored and about 85 per cent are the result of teamwork. The team size of this field is bigger than those in the fields of chemistry and physics. Single-authored articles amount to 15.52 per cent of the total citations and about 28 per cent resulted through the collaboration of five or more authors. Of the citations 88.73 per cent pertain to journal articles. Of the citing articles 38 contributed by Indian authors, 3 by foreign authors and 2 jointly by Indian and foreign authors. Of the total citations 9.48 per cent are author self-citations and 7.3 per cent are journal self-citations
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Do Visitors’ Expressed Experiences and Emotions Vary Between Scales and Reviews？
No full textZhenshan Xu ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He obtained his Master's degree (in Tourism) from Shaanxi Normal University, China. His research focuses mainly on destination marketing, theme parks, tourist behavior, and visitor emotion.
Yingsha Zhang, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is an associate professor of tourism in the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Yingsha’s research mainly focuses on destination marketing and management, tourist behavior and decision-making, tourism economics, and tourism geography, with special emphasis on theme parks. Yingsha is the corresponding author.
Chris Ryan, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is a professor of tourism in the Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He gained his doctoral degree at the Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK and his research interests relate to tourist motivations, behaviours and the consequences of those behaviours. He has published approximately 250 refereed journal articles.Given the importance attached by management to user-generated reviews, it is vital to assess whether visitors’ expressed experiences and emotions reflected in textual reviews differ from those measured by scales. A total of 1660 questionnaires were collected from visitors to six different types of theme parks in China. This study examines the consistency in theme park visitors’ expressed experiences and emotions between scales and reviews and tests the influences of visitors’ personalities. Results show that visitors’ expressed experiences and emotions tend to be more positive in scales than in reviews, and the effects of experience dimensions on emotion vary between reviews and scales. A high frequency of experience dimensions mentioned in reviews leads to a small difference in the effect of these dimensions on emotion between scales and reviews. Certain personalities influence visitors’ emotions and post-trip behavioral intentions and moderate some relationships between experience, emotion, and review-post intention
H. J. Bhabha : a case study of synchronous references
No full textQuantitative analysis of the events of synchronous references in the research papers followed throughout the publishing career of an individual scientist revealed interesting highlights on the knowledge-generating-system. In the case study of Homi Jehangir Bhabha first quinquennium and fifth quinquennium of his research career had low Self-references; third quinquennium and fourth quinquennium had moderate Self-references; whereas second quinquennium had highest Self-references. The two major clusters of Self-references occurring during the second and third quinquennium were indicators of active periods of knowledgegenerating and faster communications.(Revised version published in 2006 in International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management,Vol.2. No.1. pp.14-30. see PDF2
A Comparative Analysis of Inclusive Education Systems in Ireland and Kazakhstan
No full textThis article was written based on the results of the author\u27s PhD internship at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, in April 2016. The article provides an initial comparative analysis of inclusive education systems in Ireland and Kazakhstan related to special educational needs (SEN). Data were gathered for the Irish context through literature reviews, document analysis, site visits and interviews. Data for the Kazakhstan context were accumulated from relevant legal documentation, practice literature review and interviews. The aspects of inclusive education selected for comparative analysis in this article include: enabling legislation; types of schools; supports provided; training of teachers
Validating single-sided natural ventilation models for educational buildings
No full textTo maintain good indoor air quality in schools, it is often necessary to apply single-sided natural ventilation models using urban weather stations, since the local weather station is not available for most schools. However, the field study that validated the ventilation models with full-scale experiments in classrooms is very limited. Therefore, this study validated 6 existing single-sided ventilation models based on two field measurement campaigns conducted in naturally ventilated educational buildings, including the Warren & Parkins (1977 & 1985), De Gids & Phaff (1982), Larsen & Heiselberg (2008), Caciolo (2013), Tang (2016), and EN16798–7 (2017) models. The study also analyzed the cause of model prediction errors with respect to building characteristics such as weather station distance, building location, room floor, and incident wind direction. The results show that the distance between the school and the weather station has a significant impact on the model prediction accuracy. The prediction error generally exceeded 50 % with urban weather station data, while the actual ventilation rate was overestimated severely. The buoyancy and wind effects were overestimated by more than 2 times, due to the influence of the urban heat island effect and the complex built environment in the city. In addition, the prediction error related to the room floor was caused by the difference in environmental parameters, while the error related to the incident wind direction was mainly due to the limitations of the existing models. The results of this study provide valuable insights for the practical application and further improvement of ventilation models.This research is part of the R&D project IAQ4EDU, reference no. PID2020–117366RB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033. This work was supported by the Catalan Agency AGAUR under their research group support program (2021 SGR 00341). The author Sen Miao is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) as a full-time PhD student, reference no. 202208390065.Peer ReviewedObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::4 - Educació de QualitatObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::3 - Salut i BenestarPostprint (published version
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